Emmanuel
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Quote: Our strategy should be not only to confront empire but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness--and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we're being brainwashed to believe. The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling--their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability. Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them. -Arundhati Roy ******************************* They do not understand that we are struggling not for the steps to be swept clean from the top to bottom, but for there to be no stairs, for there to be no kingdom at all. -Zapatistas
Music:
Socio-politically conscious music from the local (Los Nativos, The C.O.R.E., Aphrill, Traditional Methods, Big Quarters, DJ K-Salaam) to the global (Manu Chao, Bob Marley, Lila Downs, Lhasa, Fela Kuti) plus the in-between: Rage Against the Machine, Ozomatli, Quetzal, Pistolera, Aztlan Underground, Welfare Poets, Ricanstruction, Broadcast Live, The Coup, Digable Planets, Spearhead, Denizen Kane, Dead Prez, Blackfire, Black Star...
Old school: Marvin Gaye, Al Green, Nina Simone, WAR, Hendrix, Curtis Mayfield, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Run DMC, Vicente Fernandez, Chavela Vargas, Fania All-Stars
Music for my soul: Sade, Red Hot Chili Peppers (the album "By The Way" rocks my world!), Satchel & Brad (same singer for these two bands, best voice I've ever heard on a white boy!), Meshell N'degeocello, Lauryn Hill, Ben Harper, Coltrane, Indigenous, Elvis Costello, Louis Armstrong
...and OK, I confess, I love "Beautiful" by Snoop Dogg and Pharrell
Films: I LOVE independent and international films, and documentaries. If I could do it all over again, I'd be a filmmaker. Movies for my Latino Soul: My Family/Mi Famila, Mi Vida Loca/My Crazy Life, La Bamba, Selena, Stand and Deliver, Zoot Suit, Frida, In the Time of the Butterflies, King of the Jungle (John Leguizamo is a genius!), Raising Victor Vargas, Lone Star, Motorcycle Diaries, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Amores Perros, I Like It Like That, Quinceanera, Whalerider, Rabbit-Proof fence, Lumumba, Battle of Algiers, City of God, Hotel Rwanda, Amandla!....
Books: WAY too many to name... The Prisoner's Wife by Asha Bandele, The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat, Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas, anything by Martin Espada, Drops of This Story, Born Palestinian Born Black and Zaatar Diva by Suheir Hammad, the Temperature of This Water by Ishle Yi Park, Smoking Lovely and Where a Nickle Costs a Dime, by Willie Perdomo, Along the Border Lies, by Paul S. Flores, Sapagonia by Ana Castillo, There Are No Children Here, Boondocks by Aaron McGruder, La Cucaracha by Lalo Alcaraz, anything by Arundhati Roy... Pablo Neruda. Che Guevara (see Socialism and Man), Winona LaDuke, Aurora Levins Morales, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Franz Fanon, Harvest of Empire, De Colores Means All of Us by Betita Martinez, Colonize This!, Soccer in Sun and Shadow (and anything Galeano). Subcomandante Marcos' writings. so so so many books of poetry... children's/young adult books: Alexander and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day, Dragonwings by Lawrence Yep, Bridge to Terabithia, Island of the Blue Dolphins, Julie of the Wolves, Where the Red Fern Grows, Sounder, and so much more!
Heroes: My parents, grandparents. My ancestors. Single mothers. the Zapatistas. Puerto Rican freedom fighters - Don Pedro, Lolita Lebron, Don Rafael Cancel Miranda, all the current and former political prisoners, Mumia abu-Jamal, Leonard Peltier, Crazy Horse, Malcolm X, poets and writers who affirm our cultures, beauty, histories. those who refuse to assimilate, who resist...
Vehicles: Collective, Non-Profit Organizations, Unions, Working on Something New
Roles 1: BLOC Circle Participants
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Latin@/Chican@
Films: I LOVE independent and international films, and documentaries. If I could do it all over again, I'd be a filmmaker. Movies for my Latino Soul: My Family/Mi Famila, Mi Vida Loca/My Crazy Life, La Bamba, Selena, Stand and Deliver, Zoot Suit, Frida, In the Time of the Butterflies, King of the Jungle (John Leguizamo is a genius!), Raising Victor Vargas, Lone Star, Motorcycle Diaries, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Amores Perros, I Like It Like That, Quinceanera, Whalerider, Rabbit-Proof fence, Lumumba, Battle of Algiers, City of God, Hotel Rwanda, Amandla!....
Books: WAY too many to name... The Prisoner's Wife by Asha Bandele, The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat, Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas, anything by Martin Espada, Drops of This Story, Born Palestinian Born Black and Zaatar Diva by Suheir Hammad, the Temperature of This Water by Ishle Yi Park, Smoking Lovely and Where a Nickle Costs a Dime, by Willie Perdomo, Along the Border Lies, by Paul S. Flores, Sapagonia by Ana Castillo, There Are No Children Here, Boondocks by Aaron McGruder, La Cucaracha by Lalo Alcaraz, anything by Arundhati Roy... Pablo Neruda. Che Guevara (see Socialism and Man), Winona LaDuke, Aurora Levins Morales, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Franz Fanon, Harvest of Empire, De Colores Means All of Us by Betita Martinez, Colonize This!, Soccer in Sun and Shadow (and anything Galeano). Subcomandante Marcos' writings. so so so many books of poetry... children's/young adult books: Alexander and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day, Dragonwings by Lawrence Yep, Bridge to Terabithia, Island of the Blue Dolphins, Julie of the Wolves, Where the Red Fern Grows, Sounder, and so much more!
Heroes: My parents, grandparents. My ancestors. Single mothers. the Zapatistas. Puerto Rican freedom fighters - Don Pedro, Lolita Lebron, Don Rafael Cancel Miranda, all the current and former political prisoners, Mumia abu-Jamal, Leonard Peltier, Crazy Horse, Malcolm X, poets and writers who affirm our cultures, beauty, histories. those who refuse to assimilate, who resist...
Vehicles: Collective, Non-Profit Organizations, Unions, Working on Something New
Roles 1: BLOC Circle Participants
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Latin@/Chican@
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